Wednesday, 27 November 2013
A number of Tasmanian writers will receive a share of more than $380,000 in funding from Arts Tasmania as part of the Tasmanian Government’s 2014 Individual Arts Program. The writers...

Wednesday, 27 November 2013
Penguin has launched its first series of Australian Classics, beginning with six titles spanning several generations of Australian writers. Launched in late November, the first six titles are: The Getting...

Tuesday, 26 November 2013
The Australia and New Zealand Festival of Literature and Arts, which will hold its inaugural event in London from 29 May to 1 June 2014, will be opened by Tim Winton....

Tuesday, 26 November 2013
Western Australian writer Kate Fielding is one of 10 artists to receive this year’s Sidney Myer Creative Fellowships, each worth $160,000 over two years. Fielding, who is based in Kalgoorlie, is...

Tuesday, 26 November 2013
US bookseller Barnes & Noble has launched Australian and other international Nook ebookstores, which are accessible via an app for devices with Windows 8.1. The move gives users in 32 countries and...

Tuesday, 26 November 2013
Publishers and distributors are asked to advise the Weekly Book Newsletter of their Christmas closing dates by 5pm this Monday 2 December. A full list will appear in the Weekly Book...

Tuesday, 26 November 2013
Sales Fiction—Text has sold US and Israeli rights to the sequel to The Rosie Project (Graeme Simsion) to Simon & Schuster and Miskal respectively; and US rights to an untitled...

Tuesday, 26 November 2013
US children’s book author and editor Charlotte Zolotow has died, aged 98. Zolotow was the author of more than 70 illustrated children’s books, beginning with The Park Book (HarperCollins) in 1944....

Monday, 25 November 2013
Literary journal Overland has announced that Jennifer Down’s short story ‘Turncoat’ has won the 2013 Overland Victoria University Short Story Prize for New and Emerging Writers, with a prize of $6000. The two runners-up,...

Monday, 25 November 2013
The Scarlett Stiletto Awards, presented by Sisters in Crime to recognise short crime stories written by Australian women, were announced at a ceremony in Melbourne on 22 November. Candice Graham won the...

Monday, 25 November 2013
Jeff Kinney’s Hard Luck: Diary of a Wimpy Kid (Puffin) is number one on the bestsellers chart for the second week in a row. Matthew Reilly’s latest novel, The Tournament (Pan),...

Friday, 22 November 2013
The Trust Company, trustee of the Miles Franklin Literary Award, has launched a free teaching resource to encourage the study of Australian literature in high schools. The resource, created in partnership...

Friday, 22 November 2013
Cengage Australia has announced that it has acquired the rights to future editions of all vocational education titles published by Pearson Australia. Paul Petrulis, vice president of higher education and Gale...

Friday, 22 November 2013
Eleanor Catton has been named Woman of the Year in the Lexus M2 Awards in New Zealand. Catton was named as the Woman of the Year at a ceremony in...

Thursday, 21 November 2013
WritingWA will receive $150,000 in funding from the Federal Government’s Regional Arts Fund Community Grants program to appoint a regional engagement officer to coordinate the writing centre’s programs throughout regional...

Wednesday, 20 November 2013
Books by Kerry Greenwood and Garry Disher were the bestselling titles at this year’s Crime and Justice Festival, held at Reader’s Feast Bookstore in Melbourne on 15-17 November. Festival organiser...

Wednesday, 20 November 2013
John Ogden has won this year’s Frank Broeze Memorial Maritime History book prize for his history books Saltwater People of the Broken Bay and Saltwater People of the Fatal Shore...

Wednesday, 20 November 2013
The Small Press Network’s (SPN) second Independent Publishing Conference has recorded an increase in attendance of around 50% at its industry day. SPN general manager Mary Masters told Books+Publishing that...

Wednesday, 20 November 2013
Sydney independent bookseller Pages & Pages Booksellers has relaunched its ‘Kindle amnesty’ with Kobo devices, expanding the offer from monthly to daily and offering $50 Kobo gift vouchers to customers who take...

Wednesday, 20 November 2013
Academic publisher Taylor & Francis has announced plans to open a local Books division in Australia and New Zealand next year. The division will be based in Melbourne and managed...

Wednesday, 20 November 2013
‘It’s not wonderful but it’s certainly not dead’—RMIT University’s Michael Webster reports on the state of the Australian book trade at the Small Press Network’s Independent Publishing Conference.